The following describes how to set up the https://developers.redhat.com/products/amq/download/[Debezium 1.0.0 Technology Preview connectors] for change data capture on Red Hat's https://www.openshift.com/[OpenShift] container platform.
This and other documentation pages mention ```Debezium 1.0.0 Technology Preview```, please note that this version corresponds to version ```1.0.0.Beta2``` of upstream https://github.com/debezium/debezium/tree/v1.0.0.Beta2[Debezium project].
For setting up Apache Kafka and Apache Kafka Connect on OpenShift, https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-amq#streams[Red Hat AMQ Streams] can be used, which offers "Kafka as a Service".
It consists of an enterprise grade operator and images that bring Kafka to OpenShift.
* Install the AMQ Streams operator by following steps in https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_amq/7.5/html/using_amq_streams_on_openshift/getting-started-str#downloads-str[AMQ docs].
* Select the desired configuration and https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_amq/7.5/html/using_amq_streams_on_openshift/getting-started-str#downloads-str[deploy your Kafka Cluster].
We now have a working ```Kafka cluster``` running within ```OpenShift``` with ```Kafka Connect s2i```.
After a while and depending on your Kafka configuration, these pods should be running (assuming you used "debezium-kafka-cluster" as the AMQ Streams Kafka cluster name):
In addition to running pods you should have a ```DeploymentConfig``` associated with your Connect ```s2i```.
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Instead of utilising the ```KafkaConnectS2I``` you can create a new ```Dockerfile``` based on AMQ's Kafka image, including the required Debezium connectors.
The precise instruction can also be found in https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_amq/7.3/html/using_amq_streams_on_openshift_container_platform/getting-started-str#using-kafka-connect-with-plug-ins-str[AMQ Streams documentation].
In this case the last item in the list above can be omitted.
Download the connector archives from https://developers.redhat.com/products/amq/download[Red Hat Developer Portal], extract the archives, and download the required driver dependencies.
Next we are going to verify whether the deployment is correct by emulating the xref:tutorial.adoc[Debezium Tutorial] and following the steps in xref:operations/openshift.adoc#verifying_the_deployment[OpenShift Installation]
